# Björk at Chase Center, February 8, 2022

[Live Nation](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Chase%20Center%22+Bjork) presents [Björk](https://bjork.com/)  
[Chase Center](https://www.chasecenter.com/)  
[Terry A Francois Blvd at South St, San Francisco, CA 94158 USA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Terry+A+Francois+Blvd+at+South+St,+San+Francisco,+CA+94158+USA&hl=en)  
8:00 PM, Tuesday, February 8, 2022

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## One Set

[8:25 PM] {repeated announcements: no photos/videos}  
[8:29 PM] {lights down, performers out: Tonality choir w/o Björk}

01. [8:30 PM] Joseph Trapanese: _New Collective Consciousness_ (2021): I _We Know_
02. [8:33 PM] Trapanese: _New Collective Consciousness_ (2021): II _How Dare You_
{playback: Bird Sounds and Soundscapes}
03. [8:39 PM] {playback: _Family_ (Intro)}  
{Björk out}
04. [8:41 PM] _The Gate_ >
05. [8:46 PM] _Utopia_
06. [8:50 PM] _Arisen My Senses_
07. [8:54 PM] _Show Me Forgiveness_
08. [8:55 PM] _Venus as a Boy_
09. [8:58 PM] _Claimstaker_
07. [8:n PM] _Isobel_  
{add Serpentwithfeet}
08. [9:n PM] _Blissing Me_  
{drop Serpentwithfeet}
09. [9:n PM] {First Interlude; playback: _Arpegggio_ (flute solo)}  
{add Tonality}
10. [9:n PM] _Body Memory_
11. [9:n PM] _Hidden Place_
12. [9:n PM] _Mouth's Cradle_
13. [9:n PM] _Features Creatures_
14. [10:n PM] _Courtship_
15. [10:n PM] _Pagan Poetry_
16. [10:n PM] _Losss_
17. [10:n PM] _Sue Me_  
{add Tonality}
18. [10:n PM] _Tabula Rasa_  
[10:m PM] {set ends}  
   
**Encore**  
{Second Interlude: A message by Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg}  
{add Tonality}
19. [10:n PM] _Future Forever_
20. [10:n PM] _Notget_  
[10:14 PM] {show ends}

Post-show scribbling:

* On the bus by 10:20!
* Rolling towards BART by 10:28 PM
* 15 min wait for the train, ugh! But much better than a 30 min wait!
* 10:56 on the train bound east for Oakland!

## Performers

* [Katie Buckley](https://www.facebook.com/katiebuckleyharpist/): concert grand harp;
* [Manu Delago](https://www.manudelago.com/): drums, Bell vibraphone, electronic drums, percussion;
* [Björk Guðmundsdóttir](https://bjork.com/): vox;
* ?: keyboards;
* [Serpentwithfeet](https://www.serpentwithfeet.co/) AKA Josiah Wise: vox.

### Tonality (mostly second half of the show)

[Tonality](https://ourtonality.org/) - an 18-member choir from L.A.

* Alexander Lloyd Blake: artistic director;
* singers TBD.

### Viibra (almost all of the tunes)

[Viibra](https://www.facebook.com/VIIbraflutes/): piccolo, Eb soprano flute, flute, circle flute, alto flute, bass flute.

* Björg Brjánsdóttir: flute;
* Áshildur Haraldsdóttir: flute;
* Þuríður Jónsdóttir: flute;
* Melkorka Ólafsdóttir: flute;
* Steinunn Vala Pálsdóttir: flute;
* Emilía Rós Sigfúsdóttir: flute;
* Berglind María Tómasdóttir: flute.

### Production credits

* Tobias Gremmier: media artist;
* Lucrecia Martel: director, filmmaker;
* Olivier Rousteing: costumes;
* Chiara Stephenson: set design.

## Notes

What a strange show! Certainly not the usual Rock and roll spectacular. Something much more theatrical. Song focused? Not so much: sound focused, certainly: built up from voice and keyboards with a splash of percussion. The whole production had a breathy vibe due to the performance presence of Viibra. There wasn't really anything danceable, but it was certainly music you could sway to. Or maybe turn yourself inside it and explode into a million pieces if you wanted to follow the example of one of the trippy videos. It seemed to me like there were three scrims used for projecting the visuals, and at times, they combined to make almost three dimensional effects. Not holographic, but with unexpected depth. Cool!

Plenty of commercial reviews were posted after Björk's first night at Chase -- I guess she's more of a current taste-maker than I realized. Anyways, here are a few links for further reading:

* Corey duBrowa posted a review for [Magnet Magazine](https://magnetmagazine.com/2022/02/08/live-review-bjork-san-francisco-ca-feb-5-2022/)
* Dan Gentile posted a review for the [SFGate](https://www.sfgate.com/characters_clone_20628_20210818162542/article/bjork-sf-cornucopia-concert-review-16836327.php)
* Roman Gokhman posted a review for [Riff Magazine](https://riffmagazine.com/reviews/bjork-20220205/) that included over twenty photos by official tour photographer, [Santiago Felipe](https://www.santiagofelipe.com/).
* Jim Harrington posted a [promo article](https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/01/19/bjork-talks-her-post-ecstatic-tour-and-new-album/) with the Mercury News. One unique tidbit he related was that the five recent shows (three in Los Angeles and two in SF) are really a pandemic-interrupted continuation of the _Cornucopia_ tour that played New York, Mexico, and Europe in 2019.
* Jeff Kaliss posted a [review](https://www.sfcv.org/articles/review/bjork-emphasizes-ecology-her-cornucopia-tour) with SFCV.
* Zack Ruskin posted a review for the [SF Chronicle Datebook](https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/review-climate-dread-fuels-bjorks-dazzling-cornucopia-in-san-francisco).
* additional photos to be posted at [Björk's website](Bjork.com).

## Photos

Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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